The Baltimore Sun

Three years ago, city police placed steel barricades and a 24-hour command center at the entrance to the 900 block of Bennett Place in West Baltimore. They acted after three men were killed there in a span of several months. On the same block this week, three people were shot to death in one night....

Ravens

When the Ravens offense walks off the field during games, the five players who make up the offensive line sit on one end of the bench in the same order they were in for a play. This allows offensive line coach Juan Castillo to review formations and emphasize key points to the players, who can easily...

President-elect Donald Trump claimed Friday night that African-Americans came through for him "big league" in the November election and said those who stayed home were "almost as good" as those who voted for him. Trump's comments came during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the latest stop on...

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller on Friday announced new committee and leadership appointments. Some of the changes were necessitated by the loss of two members due to November's election. The Senate lost two members to other elected offices: Baltimore's Catherine E. Pugh was elected the...

The Harford County Sheriff's Office said it arrested a Joppa man Thursday night and charged him with robbing a bank in Constant Friendship in September. Ervin Lorenzo White, 32, of Joppa, has been charged with armed robbery, robbery, first degree assault and other related charges. Deputies executed...

Business

Emergent BioSolutions, a Gaithersburg-based drug developer, has signed a contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worth up to $911 million over five years to supply more than 29 million doses of its BioThrax anthrax vaccine. In a notice of intent, the Biomedical Advanced Research...

Jody Davis' shop on West Saratoga Street is full of brighly colored frocks and sparkling gowns she designed herself. She's designed looks for broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien and former mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, but also struggled to get the financing needed to get her Jody Davis Designs...

The Kane Co., a second-generation commercial moving company based in Elkridge, is closing and laying off 900 workers in Maryland and Virginia, its owner said Thursday. John Kane, who bought the 47-year-old company from his father nearly two decades ago and began expanding from moving offices into...

Entertainment

Since watching "Hairspray Live" Wednesday, with its story of racial relations in 1962 Baltimore, I have been thinking a lot about race and television. One of my main thoughts: New network series like NBC's "This Is Us" and Fox's "Star," which debuts Wednesday, show how much more complex depictions...

There are books that we don't choose to read as much as we get stalked by them. Certain titles practically fling themselves off the shelves and into our outspread hands, where they recline suggestively and ruffle their pages. Open one at random, read a line or two, and suddenly, it's five hours...

Lifestyle

Aside from monstrous caloric intake, hours of training and playing a little Future before swim time, there's another method behind Michael Phelps' championship performance — sleep. Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, and fellow Olympian Aly Raisman have partnered up with Virginia...

Date: Sept. 16 and 17 Her story: Annie Seibert, 29, grew up in Baltimore. She works as a Middle East researcher. Her parents, Jeff and Jane Seibert, live in Baltimore. His story: Arif Sorathia, 28, grew up in Bethlehem, Pa. He is the co-founder of a digital health startup in Washington. His mother,...

The Eastport Yacht Club Lights Parade has been named the best holiday parade in a USA Today poll. A panel of travel experts worked with editors of USA Today's 10Best to pick 20 nominees, the newspaper reported. The Top 10 winners were determined by popular vote. The Twinkle Light Parade in Albuquerque...

Sports

The feeling Jaylen Brantley had playing basketball in high school in Springfield, Mass., and for a two-time Amateur Athletic Union national champion that featured included several future NBA players has returned.

Opinion

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump sidestepped questions on everything from the use of nuclear weapons to increases in the debt ceiling by insisting that it would be foolish for him to tell his adversaries what he might do in a given situation. America's leaders are too predictable,...

When I first saw the video of the white teacher screaming a racist epithet at her black students, my instinct was to drive to Harlem Park Middle School so that teacher could scream the same thing at me and see if my response would be as cool as her students'. I'm doubtful. But I soon learned that...

It would make a perfect clickbait ad "Learn this one simple trick to stop worrying about Donald Trump and Make America Great Again." What's the trick? All you have to do is take Mr. Trump seriously, but not literally. The formulation is credited to reporter Salena Zito, who, in an article for the...

Sun Investigates

Catherine Becket hadn't forgotten that evening three years ago in her Parkville apartment, though she tried. Then, as she watched with outrage while Stanford University student Brock Turner served three months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, she resolved to confront her own...

Towson University reversed a recent decision to redact a student's identity from a campus police report after learning that student privacy rights don't extend to college police. University police officials cited federal law last month in redacting from a police report the name of a student charged...

For years, the state agency that oversees people with disabilities erroneously charged monthly fees to largely poor people who live in residential facilities. And they might never get any of the millions of dollars back. State auditors reported this week that more than 2,500 people might have been...